Welcome to the second issue of the Birds WikiProject newsletter. Good news for our FA-class article Bird: It's now the top Google hit for both "Bird" and "Birds"!

Articles of note

New featured articles and lists:

1. Song Thrush (March 20)

New good articles:

1. Emperor Penguin (March 20)
2. Hooded Crow (March 17)

Featured topic update

Work on our first potential featured topic is nearing completion, with only New World vulture (B-class) and Cathartes (stub-class) left to go. Any help you can give in bringing either article up to GA/FA status would be appreciated.

Project news

• The current project collaboration is Cattle Egret. Help us to improve the article about this widespread species, which is found throughout most of the world—often lurking near the feet of foraging livestock.
• On a related note, be sure to vote for May's collaboration, which will be chosen on 21 April. Nominations are listed on the collaboration page; feel free to add a new article to the list if there's one you'd especially like to see worked on.
• A drive is on to bring all of our bird family articles up to at least start class. Currently, 44 families have only stub-class articles. See the list of families needing improvement to help with the project.
• Our list of articles awaiting assessment has dropped in the past month, and now numbers less than 1,900. If each project member assessed just a couple of articles a day (most will be stub or start class), we could continue to drive that number down. To find articles needing assessment, have a look at the Statistics table here and click on Unassessed for a listing. Special thanks to Dixonsej ( talk · contribs), who has been assessing up a storm!

Aviculturalists wanted...

Snowmanradio ( talk · contribs) is hoping to help start up an Aviculture task force. Anyone who'd like to help improve our coverage of aviculture-related topics is encouraged to get in touch.

Got a suggestion? A correction? Something you'd like to see included in a future issue? Please contact MeegsC ( talk · contribs) with your ideas!

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